The Return of Sherlock Holmes [antikvár]

Introduction Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Conan Doyle, born in 1859, was a doctor of medicine. He had a very keen mind, rather like that of his most famous character, Sherlock Holmes. His first story about Holmes, A Study in Scarlet, appeared in a magazine in 1887. After 1890, Conan Doyle stopped practising medicine and became a full-time writer. More and more Sherlock Holmes stories appeared in magazines and were collected in books like The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1894). Sherlock Holmes was also the subject of four full-length novels. The best-known of these is probably The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), which has been made into films and television stories several times. As a detective, Sherlock Holmes has unusual powers of reasoning and deduction. There are many examples in this book. In The Six Napoleons Holmes deduces that it is the busts that are important. In The Norwood Builder he deduces Oldacre's hiding place when he finds one passage shorter than the others. In The Golden Glasses he makes many deductions, including the ones he makes from the glasses themselves. Holmes's friend. Doctor Watson, is not a fool (though some films have made him seem foolish), but he is an ordinary man without Holmes's special powers of mind. He is a brave man, and is often able to help the detective in moments of danger. In very many of Holmes's cases, Watson tells us the story, and so we receive the explana-